Shirt



Nov. 6, 1928. 1,690,432

E. .1. QUIGLEY SHIRT Filed Nov. 1, 1926 Patented Nov. 6, 1928.

UNITED STATES.

EDWARD J. QUIGLEY, 01" NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

SHIRT Application: filed November 1, 1926..

This invention relates to mens apparel, and more particularly aims to provide a shirt for wear with evening dress, and a shirt of a stiff bosom type, but onewherein certain previous disadvantages are avoided as well as certain novel advantages are attained.

An object of the invention is to provide a new and improved evening dress shirt for men of the button-up-thaback type which may be manufactured at relatively small eX- pense, may be easily and perfectly ironed and may be equipped with its front studs and donned and adjusted on the body with ease and despatch, and which shall have a marked in'iprovement in fit over any shirt heretofore proposed.

Another object is to provide a shirt as herein above described, wherein the fit of the entire shirt shall be faultless, by which is meant that the stiff bosom shall be, even on a portly person, free of the discomfort and inconvenience of ever having a tendency to bulge or buckle within the waistcoat opening or to bear unyieldingly against the abdomen of the wearer, while at the same time the entire shirt shall have the perfect and easy fit all over characteristic of custom tailored neglig shirts.

While a preferred embodiment of the invention has been disclosed for purposes of illustration, it should be understood that various changes may be made in the structure without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

in the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 shows such form of shirt, and the upper portion of a pair of dress trousers, as these articles of apparel are finally adjusted on the wearer;

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the parts as shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 shows on an enlarged scale a vertical section taken through such articles of ap parel, the section line being through the stiff bosom of the shirt toward one side of the front stud; and

Fig. 4 illustrates in perspective one type of construction of the new stiff bosom.

Referring to the drawing, the shirt proper includes the usual neck-band 5, having free ends meeting at the back and provided with button-holes for the back collar-button 6, a single front piece 7, between which and the pair of back pieces comprising the main lower portions 8 and the upper gore portions Serial No. 145,435.

The stiff bosom shown is prepared from several plies of the desired material, as indicated best in Fig. 4. These plies are preferably gathered to provide a substantially central pleat, or one or more pleats including. a

si'ibstantially central one, as indicated at 1'5.

Such an arrangement is desirable, as then; the stitching 16,- apphed to the roots" of such:

pleat, serves for holding. the various plies together once they are properly superposed, and to make of thestilf bosom: a unit which may be secured to the front of the shirt proper solely by certain ed e stitchings. Satisfactory edge stitchings o the kind referred to are indicated at 17 and 18 in Fi 1. Although only two plies are indicator in l. at P and P, the unit-type stif bosom of the present invention may easily and inexpensively be made up of three or four or even more plies; very advantageous results having been obtainer when the plies P and P are of the same material as the rest of the shirt. say a close-weave broadcloth, and there are two intervening plies of a cloth similarly but more widely woven of coarser threads.

Referring to Fig. 1, note that stitchings l8 terminate at their bottoms at points some distance above the w istline of the trousers. and a greater distance above the bottom of the stiff bosom; that the entire width of the stiff b )som, between side stitchings 18 and below shoulder stitchings 17, is entirely disconnected from the front piece 7 of the shirt proper, except at the butto11hole 19 for the front stud E20, whereat the usual button-hole stitching gives a point secnrement of the stiff bosom to the front piece .7, and except at the small inwardly directed loop-form lines of stitching 21, the latter preferably present to give additional similar point securements; that these stitch-loops 21, like the side stitchings 18, help to form the bosom as well as to lock the same to the front piece 7; that these stitch-loops 21, continuous with side stitchings 18, are also contini'ious with a lower curved marginal stitching 22 completing the stiff bosom and edge-locking its various plies at the bottom and at the lowermost or freely positioned portion of the bosom. If desired, the stitch-loops 21 of-Fig. 1 may be omitted,

as indicated in Fig. 4; and of course more than one button-hole 19 may be provided, if more than one front stud is favored.

The lowermost or freely floating section of the stifi' bosom, which for the average figure may desirably have a length of five inches from top to bottom, affords, when combined with the other features of the shirt shown, a depending extension which when stiflly launderedlike the rest of the stiff bosom, extends down over the front waistline of the trousers and under the front waist embracing portion of the waistcoat, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 3,130 increase the comfort of the fit of the entire shirt and to prevent bulging at the breast or exposed portion of the stiff bosom, regardless of. portliness of figure, changes of posture or otherwise. The ordinary tendency of a stifi bosom to buckle above the front opening of the waistcoat is compensated for by rippling of the part of the front piece 7 of the shirt proper lying under the freely floating lowermost section of the stiff bosom, as indieated at 7 in Fig. 3. An important feature of the present construction is the ability of said section to move concealedly beneath the A shirt comprising a body piece extending V continuously across the front of the shirt, :1 bosom section superimposed upon the body piece, the bosom section having its vertical edges secured to the body piece by rows of stitching which terminate a considerable distance above the lower end of the bosom and near the edges of the bosom, leaving the lower part of the bosom extending downwardly in the form of a free tongue and the middle portion of the bosom between the lower ends of the rows of stitching being unattached to the shirt.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature.

EDWARD J. QUIGLEY. 

